This was the most disappointing dive of the whole trip. The reef is 90% dead and has many coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish all over. There are some corners with nice corals and fields of garden eels, but only over about 20% of the whole giri. Highlights was a nursery and shool of adult midnight snappers as well as a clingfish (?) on one of the starfish.
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